Per @Nemo_bis on the parent.
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| Status | Subtype | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Open | None | T351374 Improve Translatable Pages based on research input | |||
| Open | None | T131516 Reduce or eliminate the need for the user to touch <translate> tags and unit markers | |||
| Open | None | T143326 Invent automatic segmentation in translation units without <translate> tags |
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Hi Friends,
First of all, I'd like to clarify this task: Please confirm that the idea is to get rid of the <!-- T1 --> kind of tags?
We (at Dokit.io) would like to help with this task. Did you already though of a way to do it?
In my understanding, Extension:ContentTranslation split a page into translation units without using Tags.
Could it be possible to use what Extension:ContentTranslation uses? (documented here)
Thanks
ping: @Nikerabbit
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ContentTranslation does not accurately track changes to the source article, which is the exact function of these tags.
The leading idea currently is T143327: Make the Translate extension be based on DOM, not strings to reduce the need of tagging, and to not show the remaining tags in the visual editor. Possibly Multi-Content-Revisions could be used for storing the metadata. Algorithms could be developed to detect moved sections (the diff component can already do this) and to fuzzy match the remaining ones.
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Thank you for the project status.
I see. It's a pretty important one.
Since we probably can't tackle this task on our own, we won't invest effort now.
However, if you decide to work on this in a near future and feel like you need assistance with this, feel free to ask us.
We have a senior MW developper willing to help.
Moreover, showing tags in VE is still a problem for us.
Even though it's not an ideal solution, the alternative we tough of is: when using VE, we could parse the content and don't display the Tags. Then when a unit is removed/merge (the parser sees two consecutive tags), then it can automatically remove the first tag (knowing that will generate outdated translation units).